Where are the creatives in America's heartland?

This map shows where the so-called creative class lives amid the nation's metro areas....it's pretty sparse in the nation's midsection:

Cheers to the papers that published during weather crisis

One of my favorite blogs, The Rural Blog, reports that a lot of small, local papers continued to report the news amid the devastation of the major storms that hit parts of the U.S. last week.